Category: Science and Technology Current Affairs

Fifth Bilateral Cyber Policy Dialogue : India And Australia India and Australia recently convened their fifth bilateral Cyber Policy Dialogue in New Delhi. The Cyber Policy Dialogue was held under the auspices of the India-Australia Framework Arrangement on Cyber and Cyber-Enabled Critical Technology Cooperation and Plan of Action 2020-2025 for a comprehensive and deeper cyber […]

4th Edition Of Indian Chemicals Council: 4th edition of Indian Chemicals Council (ICC) Sustainability Conclave recently started in New Delhi. Theme of the two-day event is ‘boardrooms to Community-ESG, Carbon Neutrality, Operational Safety, Greener Solutions’. The Conclave aims to promote sustainability in the management of the entire life cycle of chemicals. It is being organized […]

Vikram-Suborbital Rocket : Set To Launch ISRO is set to launch India’s first privately built rocket (Vikram-suborbital (VKS) rocket) from Sriharikota. VKS rocket is developed by the the non-government entity/startup, Skyroot Aerospace Pvt Ltd (SAPL). Apart from being the nation’s first private launch, it will also be the maiden mission of Skyroot Aerospace, named ‘Prarambh’. […]

Artemis 1 : Recent Updates The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the United States is set to launch the Artemis-1 mission, which will take humans back to the Moon. It is only a lunar Orbiter mission even though, unlike most Orbiter missions, it has a return-to-Earth target — it is intended to lay […]

Indian Biological Data Bank : Faridabad The government has for the first time set up a digitised repository where Indian researchers will store biological data from publicly funded research, reducing their dependency on American and European data banks. The digitised data will be stored on a four-petabyte supercomputer called ‘Brahm’. A petabyte equals 10,00,000 gigabytes […]

International Forum On ‘Right To Drug-Free Childhood’: The UN-backed conclave will open in Thiruvananthapuram on November 16, featuring prominent voices against drug abuse from India and abroad. It is organised by Fourth Wave Foundation (FWF) in partnership with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and World Federation Against Drugs (WFAD). Theme: ‘Children Matter-Right […]

Guidelines For Uplinking And Downlinking Of Television Channels In India, 2022: The Ministry of Information & Broadcasting has issued guidelines and specified new uplinking and downloading rules. Earlier, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (I&B) had issued an advisory stating that any kind of broadcasting be done only through Prasar Bharti. New Provisions: Television channels […]

Vikram-S : India’s First Privately Developed Rocket India’s first privately developed rocket, Vikram-S, is poised to create history as it undergoes final preparations at the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) launchpad in Sriharikota for launch between November 12 and 16. It was developed by the Hyderabad-based Skyroot Aerospace. The mission named ‘Prarambh’ (the beginning), since […]

Falcon Heavy Rocket: On November 1, Elon Musk-owned SpaceX launched the Falcon Heavy rocket into a geosynchronous Earth orbit from the Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S. This is considered as a National Security Space Launch for the U.S. military. This is the fourth launch of the giant rocket system, […]